Wolf Tagging
RPC adds concessions from recent social awards, reveals some winners
Station cards aren’t enough to display all the concessions that are piling up in the RPC as a result of the big May-June bender the IFT went on. We’re also learning a lot about some of the new concessionaires and some of the winners of the big prizes the agency doled out.
The Rhythm is RYTSM
RYTSM, A.C., came into the bender with two concessions: XHCSAE-TDT 13 Ciudad Guzmán and XHCSBK-TDT 23 Puerto Peñasco. They’re getting way more than that:
- XHCSAA-TDT 17 Mexico City
- XHCSAL-TDT 14 Guadalajara
- XHCSAX-TDT 10 Ciudad Apodaca, El Carmen y Monterrey, NL
- XHCSAZ-TDT 9 Puebla
- XHCSBD-TDT 21 Nuevo Laredo
- XHCSCX-FM 105.1AA Ciudad del Carmen Camp.
- XHCSDG-FM 105.5A Matamoros Coah.
- XHCSDH-FM 89.3A Monclova Coah.
- XHCSDI-FM 95.1A Torreón Coah.
- XHCSDK-FM 96.5AA Acapulco de Juárez y El Libramiento (La Gasera)
- XHCSDO-FM 104.1A Linares, La Petaca, Río Verde NL
The radio stations are each interesting, but the TV stations are big news, reaching the nation’s four largest cities.
The question that begs asking is who and what is RYTSM? We don’t really know much beyond their legal domicile in a residential area of Guadalajara. They don’t have listed members of the association in the IFT website. The name has always seemed like an acronym, maybe “Radio y Televisión Social de México”, but even that’s guesswork.
Feeling Rural
Radio Rural Mexicana picked up all of these, which now have call signs published for the first time:
- XHCSBQ-FM 88.3A Tepalcatepec, Mich.
- XHCSBV-FM 102.7A Santiago Juxtlahuaca y San Mateo Tunuchi, Oax.
- XHCSBX-FM 91.7B Carlos Tuc, Q. Roo. Note the class!
- XHCSCC-FM 104.5A Zocohuite, SLP
- XHCSCI-FM 91.5A Tenosique de Pino Suárez, Tab.
- XHCSCL-FM 92.9A Río Playas, Ver.
- XHCSCP-FM 102.5A Río Grande, Zac.
- XHCSCQ-FM 95.5A Sombrerete, Zac.
We also learned something about RRM as a result of additional documentation: it is connected to Grupo Acustik, as is the serial filer Comunicación Agrícola. The IFT considers them as one economic unit.
That documentation comes from the May 10 Pleno meeting, where Arturo Robles Rovalo was busy at an OECD event and could not attend. His written votes include the raw input information used to determine in the IFT’s priority order system who has fewer concessions and is eligible to be selected.
We also learned that four different social wolves are the same entity, connected to Media Group of Michoacán (with its six FMs, an AM that has only sparsely operated, an AM that may never have operated, and three Coahuila AMs, only one of which has been heard for any length of time). The civil associations in question are Radio Lacustre, Radio Tonatiuh, Radio Metro Misión Potosina, and Radio Comunicación Purépecha. These all have offices in Morelia.
Pearls of (Christian) Wisdom
Perla Yireth Aranda Marroquín will get XHCSAZ-FM 103.9AA Tapachula/Tuxtla Chico, Chiapas. That’s not news. This is:
Antonio Morales Hernández, a Tapachula native, is the backing behind Grupo Visión (also known around EF as the Calle 35 Poniente group after one of his common legal domiciles). He is also tied to XHPEAH-FM 89.9 Tapachula–Cacahoatán.
We also now know that Edeysi Yolisea González Roblero will pick up XECSGH-AM 1570 Monterrey, also signed for by Morales Hernández. This goes with her being a native of Cacahoatán, Chiapas.
The Calle 35 Poniente address also appeared for Julio César Espinoza Vargas’s XHCSDZ-FM 91.3 San Luis Potosí.
Another known Christian group appears to have struck with a new name. La Mejor Sintonía, A.C., of Cintalapa de Figueroa, Chiapas, won XHCSAX-FM 93.5A Cintalapa de Figueroa and XHCSAW-FM 92.7A Arriaga. The news here is that their legal representative is Araceli Farrera González. Her public Facebook page includes a like of the official page of Abogados Cristianos on Facebook. That’s the Barra Nacional de Abogados Cristianos (BANAC), headed by Alfonso Farrera González — her brother, whose Facebook indicates he is from Cintalapa!
BANAC is already a concessionaire through another vehicle association, Manantial de Voz, A.C. They own the concessions to stations in La Paz (XHCSAP-FM “Radio Bless”), San Felipe BC (status unclear), and Chilpancingo (XHCSBI-FM “Radio Restauración”), which each are operated by local religious ministries.
Plus, there’s a curious detail. XHCSAU-FM 101.1AA (San Francisco de Campeche) plus XHCSAS-FM 102.1AA (Ciudad del Carmen) are going to Sobre las Montañas de los Aromas in Campeche. The concessionaire has an address in Cintalapa de Figueroa, Chiapas, and its representative is Emilio Toledo Vila, former municipal official. Toledo Vila is friends with Araceli Farrera González on Facebook. And the name is straight out of Song of Songs. Could it be?
Michoacán Beats Didaskalos in Cancún
In Cancún, Michoacán Te Escucha beat La Verdad Radio y TV and Centro Universitario Didaskalos for XHCSBC-TDT 10. This social station is designated to cover Benito Juárez and Playa del Carmen. It will go well with another social station picked up by this wolf, XHCSBB-TDT 10 in Chetumal.
Didaskalos does not go home empty-handed. It picked up XHCSAO-TDT 4 in Toluca.
Why did Didaskalos lose? The reason might be identifiable now. Its legal representative is Linda María del Pilar Tella Henkel. The Henkel part isn’t interesting; the Tella is.
Searching her name turns up a case page for a 2018 divorce proceeding in Toluca courts against Naim Libien Tella. That name should be familiar, because he’s associated with Fundación Educacional de Medios/Cadena Azul Radio. Which, notably, is also a Toluca-based deal.
The IFT will identify family relationships. (For instance, as shown above, Juana Patricia Ruiz Sánchez, of the dying XHVDR and the new XHCSAV-FM 105.5A Acacoyagua, is the mother of Keren Victoria Morales Ruiz, owner of XHCSAD.) So it may have considered FEM and Didaskalos in the same economic interest group.
Matehuala–Cedral: XHCSBZ-FM 103.9AA
The winner here is someone who filed on October 10, 2018, and didn’t get reported on because the IFT listed his application as “Cedral, Matehuela [sic], La Paz” in its documentation at the time, so I didn’t identify it as belonging to the same cluster. His name is Álvaro Flores Juárez, and he does have radio credentials.
The Ríoverde native grew up in Tampico, where he had his first job at XELE, and moved to Matehuala in 1971 to become an announcer at XEFF. He hosted the morning Amanecer Norteño and afternoon La Fiesta de la Acordeón programs at XEFF. Flores then left to work in public relations.
In Cedral, Flores runs an online station, Radio Mexicana de Cedral. The official Facebook page appears to have been hijacked with clips of Indian movies.
Flores Juárez makes sense to jump the queue. He had no concessions and filed before two other applicants in the same position.
Elsewhere…
- It’s XHCSCK-FM 100.5A for Imelda Bravo Ríos in Coatzacoalcos…
- …and XHCSEN-FM 98.1A Mérida and XHCSEH-FM 90.5A Puerto Peñasco for José Antonio Aguilar Arellano (related to Frecuencias Sociales)…
- …and XHCSDY-FM 98.9A for Ahora Contigo, A.C., in Ciudad Valles, San Luis Potosí. The representative is former Monclova, Coahuila, interim mayor and councilor Andrés Felipe Osuna Mancera, who also has interests in the local construction industry.
- XHTPC-FM Tapachula, which received a renewal, will be grandfathered into the reserved band. This Class B1 station at 106.7 MHz will get to stay there. Also renewed in the same act on May 10: XHUAD-FM, XHJRS-FM, and XHVER-FM.
